This a great post and is 100% facts! Not being really associated with a team ..I get the great honor of basically catching the Game of the Week!Rebel-Fan-74 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:56 pmFrom 2002 to 2011 (ten year span) we were in 9 state championship games (8-1) and made it to the Quarter Finals in 2006. Between those years, the program was headed up by Bentley and Miller and those two ran a complete program throughout the entire year. It started in D5 Youth Football and ran through all the way to the final game of your Senior Year. In 2012 & 13 we made it to the Semifinals and the loss of Bentley and Miller signaled a different leader in Duncan. During his tour in Duncan, Brian Lane learned an important lesson, (the hard way) that at this level, you have to hire the best coaches you can find for every position on your staff, not necessarily friends. And it appears that he learned that lesson quite well....racincowboy02 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:31 amI never would've thought that I would ever see Byrnes below .500 again and this season it has happened. I just never thought in my wildest dreams that Byrnes would fall off the map as bad as they have this season. I know they lost some key pieces to other schools (via the transfer portal). But surely that wouldn't mean that the talent pool is dried up in Duncan or is it something deeper than talent and maybe the kids and maybe the fans have given up on the commander and chief of the Rebels and they have gave up hope on HPO and Strike Force defense that were big time in the 2010's.
I have no doubt that Coach Shaw is a good man! I have no doubt that he is a good coach! I have doubts that he is the one to lead us back to a dominant level because there doesn't seem to be the fire and excitement among the players that used to be there in years past. Now is that due to the coach? Is it due to the players? Is it because "THINGS" are different now? By that, I mean the OPEN RECRUITING and TRANSFER PORTAL that seems to be happening with no action on the part of the SCHSL. I mean it is everywhere.... Gaffney hasn't had a "home grown" quarterback in several seasons. J L Mann is loaded with "transfers". Is it the new way for High School Football? I mean, MVP, Gray, Oceanside, are all catching flak from folks but traditional schools are doing it too.
I don't want to be the little boy crying WOLF! but maybe the traditional way of pulling for the team that you watched in Youth Football, then 7th grade and finally getting to Varsity is a thing of the past. I guess High School Coaches are going to have to be going to the Tommy Knotts School of Recruiting during the off season!
When I went to the Westside and BHP game and fans was pointing out the players that all transferred in Byrnes! So, I'm saying to myself that SCHL has all but given up on transfer rules!
This Friday will be my first time seeing both Spartanburg and Byrnes and looking forward to it!
